adjective
definition
Of wine, contaminated by a faulty or tainted cork.
example
This wine smells a bit corky; get me another bottle.
definition
Consisting of, or like, cork; dry; shrivelled.
Examples of corky in a Sentence
The bark is thick, light grey, and corky.
Corky's is open for both lunch and dinner seven days a week, and dress is casual.
The stem is Lsolid and corky, much more solid than the flesh of the cap, and perfectly smooth, never being furnished with the slightest trace of a ring.
Both cuticularized and suberized membranes are insoluble in cuprammonia, and are colored yellow or brown in a soltition of chlor-iodide of zinc. It is probable that the corky or suberized cells do not contain any cellulose (Gilson, Wisselingh); whilst cuticularized cells are only modified in their outer layers, cellulose inner layers being still recognizable.
The leaf scar is protected by a corky change (suberization) in the walls of the exposed cells.
Bast mats are now made chiefly in Russia, the bark being cut in long strips, when the liber is easily separable from the corky superficial layer.
The corky layers which take so prominent a share in the formation of the bark are similarly modified and subserve the same purpose.
The potato tuber consists mainly of a mass of cells filled with starch and encircled by a thin corky rind.
Hough's parents divorced when she was 10, and to protect her from the divorce proceedings, they sent her and her brother to London with dance coaches Corky and Shirley Ballas.